Improved peach-cotter



w, tnitexl ,S5/taire' @anni JOHN T, VAUGHN, OF GRIFFIN', GEORGIA.

Lehm Piuma No. 86,045, dated Janna/ry 19, 1869.

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To all whom 'it ma/y camera .Beit known that I, JOHN T. VAUGHN, of .Grim in the county of Spaulding, and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in` Peach-Gutter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description-thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in an implement for cutting peaches, whereby peaches of diierent sizes, or containing different-sized pits, may be pitted and sliced by a single motion; and

The invention consists in an expansible, elastic oentral tube, having vertically-arranged wings or cutters attached thereto, which, in number, maybe three, (more or less,) which Wings are supported by an elastic circular cutter, as will be hereinafter more fully described..

Figure l is a longitudinal side View of the implement.

Figure 2 isa View of the cutting-end.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a central tube, which is somewhat tapering in form, and of any desired length, with cutters attached near its small end, as seen in the drawing.

B represents the straight cutters, which radiate from the tube A.

O represents the circular cutter, the back of which rests in slots -in each of the cutters B, orwhich may beattached in any other suitable manner.

The cutters B are rigidly-attached to the tube A. In using the cutter, it is pressed down on to the peach, and the pit passes up the tube, while the peach would (in this example of my invention) bel cut into six pieces.

gether, when it is not desired to cut the or to support lthe cutters B.

For the purpose of adapting the cutter to dierentsized pits, I cut the tube A, or allow the edges to lap by each other, as seen at d in the drawing.

The circular cutteri C is formed in the same manner, so that it will expand, and thereby allow the tube to expand. V

By thus making the cutter-tube and circular cutter expansible, the peaches are worked up much more economically than they would be if the tube were rigid, and suiiciently large to receive the largest pits.

' I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the central expansible tube A with the cutting-wings B and circular' cutter C, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: JOHN T. VAUGHN.

G. P. VAUGHN, WM. H. VAUGHN.

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vThe circular' cutter C may be dispensed with alto- 

